Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only Steve Friedberg, the most powerful Quaker threat, should defeat Dick Hook at 157. The rest of the varsity wrestlers are favored in their contests...
Heavyweight Ted Morrison seems likely to maintain his undefeated status against the Lions' Ivan Samsonoff, whom he has beaten before. Dick Hook will face Columbia's strongest wrestler, Captain Harry Scott, and Casper Cronk will go at 177, John Winthrop at 130, Phil Andrews at 137, and Tatsuo Arima...
...ancient eating-hall), and again when they wanted to have their fire engine repaired. The decision having been reached about Christmas vacation, rides home (as far as Kenosha, Wis.) were offered to College and Radcliffe students. Unfortunately, the boys down at the firehouse had their alarms crossed, and the hook-and-ladder left a day before any students appeared...
...clipper races in, the chum begins to fly. The high-booted fishermen stand precariously in shallow metal scuppers that hang like balconies over the water, and they wield stout poles from which dangle a short line and a large bare hook. The tuna flash up to take the chum, and many get a hook instead. In hook, out fish, in hook, out fish-the work falls quickly into a pounding rhythm that maddens the blood like drums. The deck-holes are filling fast with 20-pounders that flail like thunder as the blood-mist steams above their thousand throes...
...surface of the school, a shimmer of young fish, breaks open like taut skin as the ancients of the tribe come hurtling up to take the bait. The men in the scuppers see them coming and join forces for the battle-three poles now are roped to the same hook, and still the big backs bow and the heavy arms knot as 300-lb. tuna fly into the back troughs with each heave...